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abundant flowers which rival in beauty those of the cultivated Wistaria. The flow- 
ers are purple and white and are borne in dense racemes 2 or 3 inches long.”’ 
Ramirezella occidentalis Rose, sp. nov. 
Resembling R. strobilophora, but leaves very broadly ovate, nearly glabrous on both 
sides, 10 em. long, 7 to 8 cm. broad; inflorescence very slender, 3 to 4 dm. long, the 
flowers more numerous, somewhat smaller; pods 8 to 10 cm. long, glabrous. 
Collected by Dr. Edward Palmer near Acapulco, Mexico, October, 1894, March, 
1895 (no. 179). 
Ramirezella pubescens Rose, sp. nov. 
Resembling &. strobilophora, but with thicker, broader, more pubescent leaflets, 
the racemes stouter, calyx somewhat larger, its tube pubescent without, the ovary 
densely lanate, pods pubescent, ete. 
Collected by E. W. Nelson on road between Tlapa and Tlaliscatilla, Guerrero, 
December 5, 1894 (no. 2046). 
Ramirezella glabrata Rose, sp. nov. 
A tall vine, stems glabrous or early glabrate; leaflets ovate, with slender acumina- 
tion, 4 to 8 em. long, very thin, nearly glabrous on both sides, hardly paler beneath; 
peduncles 6 to 15 em, long; racemes becoming 12 to 15 em. long; bracts glabrous 
except on the margins, simply acute, at least the lower ones; pods (immature) 
glabrous, with a long apiculation (10 to 15 mm, long). 
Colleeted by J. N. Rose at Bolafios, Jalisco, August 25, 1897 (no, 2853, type), and 
on road between Huejugilla and Mesquitec, Jalisco, August 25, 1897 (no. 2562). 
Closely resembling R. strohilophora, but more glabrous throughout, with thinner 
leaflets and blunter bracts and with long apiculations to the pods. 
A NEW SPECIES OF BRADBURYA WITH REVISION OF TWO 
NAMES. “@ 
Before offering for publication the following description and new 
combinations much recent material and all the descriptions of the 
Mexican species of Bradburya have been passed in review several times. 
Upon them a synopsis of the Mexican species has been made, but it 
seems best for several reasons not to present it at this time. Our 
knowledge of the species is still meager, their number being mani- 
festly greatly in excess of what has been supposed. Our commonest, 
or those supposed to be commonest, have not been well defined or 
restricted, For instance, B. virginiana, based upon plants from 
Virginia, has been reported from New Jersey southward throughout 
tropical America to Bolivia. 
B. pubescens, based on material from a high mountain valley of 
central Mexico, has been assigned to many parts of tropical Mexico 
and South America. 
Bradburya unifoliata Rose, sp. nov. 
A delicate vine, 3 to 9 dm. long, glabrous or nearly so; leaflets single, linear to 
oblong or eyen orbicular, 2 to 9 em. long, 3 to 12 mm. broad, obtuse, with or with- 
out a short apiculation, rounded at base, strongly reticulated on both sides; stipules 
ovate, striate; stipels linear; petioles 8 to 12 mm. long, usually 2-flowered; bracts 
«Bradburya Raf. Fl. Ludov. 104. 1817. 
Centrosena Benth. Ann. Wien. Mus. 2: 117. 1838, 
